Quick question,
My light is a home made 2x4 with 2ft single row strips 1.5" apart, total of 16, driving them at about 27.5 watts a piece. Each half is powered by a meanwell 240w driver.
Contemplating splitting my grow light into two, taking out every other row, and adding one additional row to each so they'll each have 9 strips, maxing out the driver, and balancing out the lighting. They would then have a 4" gap between each strip and would be at 30W/ft^2
Then I'd have two 2x4 grow setups for almost no extra costs, not in new lighting nor in more electricity.
My question to you guys who have experience with grows with these lights, how big of an impact am I going to see (loss) in yield and quality? My grow right now is at 1.5 weeks of flower, 8 weeks of veg, 6 plants, 5 strains, and they're doing pretty well despite all of my first grow blunders. The canopy is filled and they are all extremely dense. I'd be sad to lose that on my next grow. But I'd love to have a perpetual grow, and I've also read some people say that anything over 35w/ft^2 is overkill with the LM561C, not sure if they're just assuming that or have actually done some side by side tests.
Thanks guys,
sunsp0ts
My light is a home made 2x4 with 2ft single row strips 1.5" apart, total of 16, driving them at about 27.5 watts a piece. Each half is powered by a meanwell 240w driver.
Contemplating splitting my grow light into two, taking out every other row, and adding one additional row to each so they'll each have 9 strips, maxing out the driver, and balancing out the lighting. They would then have a 4" gap between each strip and would be at 30W/ft^2
Then I'd have two 2x4 grow setups for almost no extra costs, not in new lighting nor in more electricity.
My question to you guys who have experience with grows with these lights, how big of an impact am I going to see (loss) in yield and quality? My grow right now is at 1.5 weeks of flower, 8 weeks of veg, 6 plants, 5 strains, and they're doing pretty well despite all of my first grow blunders. The canopy is filled and they are all extremely dense. I'd be sad to lose that on my next grow. But I'd love to have a perpetual grow, and I've also read some people say that anything over 35w/ft^2 is overkill with the LM561C, not sure if they're just assuming that or have actually done some side by side tests.
Thanks guys,
sunsp0ts
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